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Transforming the OYA: Difference between revisions
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4. replace `[[:::CharHeight=12::]]` with `\t&\t` (to create tabs before and after every "old alphabet" administrative unit name, which are given in 12 point foint). | 4. replace `[[:::CharHeight=12::]]` with `\t&\t` (to create tabs before and after every "old alphabet" administrative unit name, which are given in 12 point foint). | ||
For some reason these find and replace operations took _forever_ in Libreoffice. When I broke the document into 8,000 word chunks, it went a lot faster. I pasted the results into a spreadsheet and cleaned up a few errors manually. There were about 6400 records in the table that resulted, which is archived as | For some reason these find and replace operations took _forever_ in Libreoffice. When I broke the document into 8,000 word chunks, it went a lot faster. I pasted the results into a spreadsheet and cleaned up a few errors manually. There were about 6400 records in the table that resulted, which is archived as '''[https://github.com/whanley/Ottoman-Gazetteer/blob/master/data/archived-versions/ottgaz-data-1.csv Ottgaz-data-1]'''. | ||
=== 2. Creating columns === | === 2. Creating columns === | ||